Refine Your Blog’s Voice with New Fonts

Using the perfect font gives your blog personality — and just might be the design element that inspires you to find your own voice. We’ve added a bunch of terrific new fonts for users of our Custom Design upgrade from our partners at Typekit.

Infuse some retro-future attitude in your headlines with Brandon Grotesque Medium, or make your text effortlessly elegant with the incomparable Chapparal Pro:

Several of our new families have weights beyond the usual, letting you reach new heights of unified expressiveness. Jubilat Light for your headlines pairs perfectly with Jubilat Regular for your text:

Or, you might go for something more modern and fun! Behold the rounded Omnes Pro Black in this bold headline, and Source Sans Pro performing admirably in the text:

As the saying goes, “In with the new; out with the old!” In order to make room for these beautiful new fonts, we’ve retired some of our older, less used fonts. If your currently chosen font didn’t make the cut, breathe easy: it will continue to work just fine.

The examples above show the expressiveness of just a few font pairings in a single theme. We’re really excited to see what you can do with the power of beautiful, well-crafted fonts—old and new—across over 200 beautiful themes.

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Delighted to learn of new ones – can never have too many fonts. Yesyes, I know: they slow down one’s computer. But in the case of WordPress, they could only possibly slow you down, not me! [grin] Just joking …

Clare, adding inline font-family styles to HTML elements in your post editor will indeed work. :) But, only to an extent. Your technique is only effective if your blog’s readers already have that font installed on their computer. Plus, it would make it really tedious to make a change in the future: you’d have to edit every post. Custom Fonts makes the font available to all your readers, and makes it really easy to change everything in the future with just a couple of clicks!

Thanks for sharing your thoughts! The Reader is one of our many ongoing projects to make both reading and writing great on WordPress.com on any device. Opening posts in the Reader does mean that readers won’t see your site’s fonts, but it’s also a great way for people to discover your blog in the first place, no matter the device they’re on.

You can also click on the time at the bottom of a post in the Reader to be taken to their site instead of the popup.

Fonts are great and I certainly have a tons of them on my dedicated drives, but I prefer using creative fonts in my graphics, not in my pieces. The inclusion of well-designed & relevant graphics go far beyond a simple matter of including fonts in posts. It’s not worth the upgrade.